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Thorngrove Manor Hotel
Image of Thorngrove Manor Hotel, Stirling, in the Adelaide Hills. The building functions as a luxury boutique hotel and was designed and built by owner Kenneth Lehmann. Described as having romantic castle-inspired towers and fantasy turrets, the…
Thorngrove Manor Hotel, Stirling, Adelaide hills
Thorngrove Manor Hotel, Stirling, in the Adelaide Hills. The building functions as a luxury boutique hotel and was designed and built by owner Kenneth Lehmann. Described as having romantic castle-inspired towers and fantasy turrets, the building…
Thorngrove Manor Hotel, Stirling, in the Adelaide Hills
Thorngrove Manor Hotel, Stirling, in the Adelaide Hills. The building functions as a luxury boutique hotel and was designed and built by owner Kenneth Lehmann. Described as having romantic castle-inspired towers and fantasy turrets, the…
Viking Memories
A review of the film The Viking on page 14 of the Adelaide newspaper ‘The Advertiser’ on October 17, 1929. The film was about Lief Eriksson, or Leif the Lucky, the leader of possibly the first group of Europeans to reach North America.…
Tags: Adelaide, cinema, dragon, dragon ships, film, films, Lief Eriksson, movie, movies, Norseman, Norway, SA, saga, ship, ships, South Australia, The Advertiser, viking, vikings
Viking Raiders
Amongst the comics and list of pen friends on page 6 of the Supplement in Adelaide’s The Mail newspaper on July 5, 1947, was a copied drawing of a Viking ship under full sail by Brian Bowley, aged 11. Images of Viking-style ships are known…
Tags: Adelaide, Brian Bowley, SA, ship, ships, South Australia, The Mail, viking, vikings
Viking Song
A poem included in the ‘Poems and Rhymes’ section on page 4 of the Adelaide newspaper ‘The Register’ on August 31, 1918. The poem evokes the Norse gods Odin and Thor in its imagery of shipbuilding, specifically modern steel…